The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) works to expose disparities in our criminal justice system that are a legacy of our history of racial injustice.  Black men are nearly six times more likely to be incarcerated than white men; Latino men are nearly three times as likely, and Native Americans are incarcerated at more than twice the rate of white Americans.  The Bureau of Justice Statistics projected in 2001 that one of every three Black boys and one of every six Latino boys born that year would be incarcerated if trends continued.  Presumption of guilt and dangerousness historically assigned to African Americans has made minority communities particularly vulnerable to the unfair administration of criminal justice.  Implicit biases have been shown to affect policing and all aspects of the criminal justice system.  EJI provides legal services to some of the poorest people in the country, citing the impact of poverty as a “huge barrier to reducing incarceration, improving public safety, and creating healthy and just opportunities for all people.”  The funding of local services by imposing increasingly steep fines and court fees for minor offenses often adds up quickly to crushing debt burdens the poor cannot pay, potentially leading to revocation of probation or parole and years of incarceration for missing a single monthly payment on court debt.  Economic inequality “impacts individuals’ development, opportunity, and risk of incarceration by a criminal legal system that frequently treats you better if you are rich and guilty than if you are poor and innocent.”  Let us advocate for reforms that address this racial injustice.